Hangzhou, June 11 (Xinhua News Agency) ” our village this boxing, is handed down from our ancestors, now the development of intangible cultural heritage tourism, everyone is very happy, welcome tourists to the village to learn martial arts boxing.
“In Meng Village, Shiliang Town, Kecheng District, Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province, villager Wang Chengkui is a well-known martial arts teacher. A set of” Thirteen Taibao Boxing ” is popular. This group of boxing is still a municipal intangible cultural heritage project of Quzhou.
During the Anti-Japanese War, Quzhou Middle School had moved to Shiliang Town to run a school.
Jin Yong, the master of martial arts novels, once studied in Quzhou Middle School at that time, and also wrote the place name of “Shiliang” into his novel.
In order to commemorate this period of history, Ma ong Village built a number of “martial arts attractions” such as Jin Yong Martial Arts Square beside the Shiliang Creek.
Zhou Feng, Party Secretary of Shiliang Town, said: ” We should take the development of intangible cultural heritage tourism as an opportunity to revitalize the cultural tourism resources of surrounding villages and drive people to increase their income and become rich.
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Kecheng District is the main city of Quzhou, a national historical and cultural city.
The area is rich in intangible cultural heritage resources, including 3 national intangible cultural heritage projects, 6 provincial intangible cultural heritage projects and 26 municipal intangible cultural heritage projects.
At the opening ceremony of the 2022 “Cultural and Natural Heritage Day” of Zhejiang Province held on the evening of October 10, the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism released the first batch of 16 themed intangible cultural heritage tourism routes.
It also includes the “Future Rural Intangible Cultural Heritage Tour” in Kecheng District of Quzhou City, which involves 11 intangible cultural heritage projects such as “Thirteen Taibao Boxing” and “Jiuhua Spring Festival”, which organically integrates the non-genetic inheritance with the future rural construction.
Zhejiang has 241 national intangible cultural heritage projects and 10 human intangible cultural heritage projects, and the number is among the top in the country. The development of intangible cultural heritage tourism aims to promote the integrated development of intangible cultural heritage and tourism, and constantly improve the practical level of non-genetic inheritance system.
The first batch of intangible cultural heritage themed tourism routes released this time are a string of beads into chains, gathering the most representative intangible cultural heritage projects in all cities and counties in Zhejiang Province.
[Responsible editor: Ma Jiang]